Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.

It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them

The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was not a washroom. They were not sent there for a shower. For those people, life was still achievable.

She closes the door completely, and I crouch there. I allow myself to fall forward and rest my head on the door frame. My breath bleeds. My heartbeat drowns my ears.

...and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.

It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. You bastards, she thought. You lovely bastards. Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this.

Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends? It's just an observation.